Image: Agrarian distress: Farmers in Sri Lanka’s Polonnaruwa district are trying to make their voices heard. | Photo Credit: Meera Srinivasan
Disillusioned farmers in Polonnaruwa...
Image: Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky.
GENEVA/COLOMBO (11 September 2018) – Human rights must be at the centre of measures by Sri Lanka to promote economic growth that...
GENEVA/COLOMBO (29 August 2018) – The UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, will conduct an official visit to...
Image: Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, in southern Sri Lanka, is called "the world's emptiest airport." It has four scheduled flights per week. (Photo by...
Image: Sri Lankans walk by a Chinese-funded port in Colombo. Photo: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP via Getty Images.
Erica Pandey .
Sri Lanka's economy is struggling under the weight...
Government institutions have engaged in continuous “window dressing” of financial records to underreport national debt and bypass borrowing limits imposed by debt management regulations,...
Image: Beijing has been given a 99-year lease on Hambantota port as part of a debt-reduction deal, amid talk of creditor imperialism following China's...
Image:Vice President Leni Robredo.
The administration’s new source of financing for its ambitious infrastructure projects, China, could lead the Philippines into a “debt trap” as...
(Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, chats with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in...
Image: Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights making concluding remarks at the ID on Sri Lanka report.
Making interventions at the interactive dialogue at...
Many reports of the United Nations and International Human Rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch have documented human rights violations by LTTE for...
Image: Every leader commencing from Anagarika Dharmapala up to Gotabhaya who had led the country along this path have disrupted the country and carried...
Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Madam President,
This is a key juncture for the Council’s engagement with Sri Lanka. As my...
